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COLUMBIA, 8/31/09 (Beat Byte) -- A simple observation about a widely-publicized "person of interest" sketch in the brutal 2005 slaying of MU biochemist Jeong Im significantly enlarges a 5-year-old description: That the hooded person in the sketch (left) is wearing a painting or drywall mask.
In fact, the sketch could just as well show a person wearing a clean room or laboratory mask (below), says Vanessa Hall of Millersburg, a former forensic death investigator for a leading urban pathology department who made the observation while collaborating on this publication's Beat Board, an open news forum.
In fact, the sketch could just as well show a person wearing a clean room or laboratory mask (below), says Vanessa Hall of Millersburg, a former forensic death investigator for a leading urban pathology department who made the observation while collaborating on this publication's Beat Board, an open news forum.
Im worked in a laboratory and was murdered in a parking garage surrounded by laboratories.
"It's something I've wondered about," Hall said. "Why refer to it consistently as a painter's mask?"
The mask pictured in the MU police department sketch looks identical to laboratory masks that protect against dust and other coarse particulates:
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Few, if any photos of face masks similar to the police sketch match these painting masks, painter's mask, and drywall masks in a Google image search:
Though the mask in the police sketch could be used for painting or drywall work, a more complete description is: The person of interest in the sketch was seen wearing a painter's, drywall, clean room, or laboratory mask.
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